Kevin and Nicole discuss the management of ceberbrovascular trauma, primarily blunt and penetrating injuries to the carotid and vertebral arteries. 

Dr. Rasmussen is a Colonel in the United States Air Force and is a Professor of Surgery and Associate Dean of Research at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and an attending vascular surgeon at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. 

Dr. Rasmussen has been deployed numerous times to Iraq and Afghanistan and cared for many traumatic vascular injuries at Walter Reed Medical Center. Through his experience and research, he has become one of the foremost leaders on the management of vascular trauma and recently published the third edition of Rich’s Vascular Trauma.

Nicole Rich is a vascular surgery fellow at New York Presbyterian. 

Behind The Knife YouTube Page

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZkuV3bsUyp0q4mTFHFEoKg

EAST Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury Guidelines

https://www.east.org/education/practice-management-guidelines/blunt-cerebrovascular-injury

Check out Rich’s Vascular Trauma

https://www.elsevier.com/books/richs-vascular-trauma/9781455712618